Nautilus desktop icons (Was: Gnome desktop icons

[Andrew Robinson]

David L Norris wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 17:40, Andrew Robinson wrote:
> 
>>Gnone has put icons on my desktop for various mounted partitions.
>>...
>>How do I control what Gnome puts on my desktop?
> 
> 
> Your /etc/fstab most likely has the user or owner options specified for
> those filesystems.  If users are allowed to mount/umount then they
> obviously need a way to do so and thus the desktop items are created. 
> To remove the desktop and disks submenu items remove the user or owner
> options.
> 
> 
> Also related to controlling what GNOME displays:  Nautilus (file manager
> and desktop) will hide files, per folder, listed in a .hidden file.  You
> can still see the files through file selection dialogs.
> 

I want the filesystems mounted. I just don't want icons for them on my 
desktop. When I want to get to files on the partions, I can do so 
through the filemanager.

You did give me one big clue. The desktop is Nautilus rather than Gnome 
(duh!). I found a set of xml files under the .nautilus/metafiles 
directory that seem to reference the desktop icons. However, the 
heirarchy of files does not jump out at me (probably another duh!). Can 
someone point me to some information that will allow me to control the 
icons on the desktop?

Below is a list of the files. Thanks!

Andrew Robinson

file:%2F%2F%2Fhome%2Fandrew%2FDesktop.xml
file:%2F%2F%2Fhome%2Fandrew%2F.gnome-desktop.xml
file:%2F%2F%2Fhome%2Fandrew.xml
file:%2F%2F%2Fhome.xml
file:%2F%2F%2Fmnt%2Fhdb7%2FDownloads%2FFedora%2FWine.xml
file:%2F%2F%2Fmnt%2Fhdb7%2FDownloads%2FFedora.xml
file:%2F%2F%2F.xml
preferences:%2F%2F%2F.xml
x-nautilus-desktop:%2F%2F%2F.xml